2024 All-Virginia Guitar Ensemble (AVGE)

Audition Information & Materials

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Auditions will take place September 14 and 15 2024 at sites across the
Commonwealth. Site locations and sign ups will be posted by Labor Day.

Eligibility: 9 - 12 Grade Students enrolled in a guitar class at school (if guitar is not offered at your
school, you must be enrolled in another music class at school). Teachers must be a current member of
the National Association for Music Education (NAfME)/Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA).

The 2024 AVGE will perform for the VMEA Professional Development Conference in Norfolk, VA
(tentatively scheduled) Nov. 22, 2024 with rehearsals starting on November 20. Should you win the
audition to participate in the AVGE, you will be required to pay a fee of approximately $400 to cover
food and lodging. This price may drop as sponsorship increases. Some school districts may give nancial
assistance for this event. You are encouraged to discuss this ahead of time with your teacher and
administrators.
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 Sight Reading
• 10 Points (out of 100)
• 4 Points Notes
• 4 Points Rhythm
• 2 Musicality

A Harmonic Minor Scale - 3 Octaves

(See music included in this packet)
• 15 Points (out of 100)
• 5 Points for correct notes
• 5 Points for uid, steady rhythm
• 5 Points for tone quality (left and right hand techniques)

Solo: Study in Am, Op. 60, No. 7

(Included in this packet)
• 35 Points (out of 100)
• 10 Points for correct notes and rhythms
• 10 Points for tone quality from right hand and left hand techniques
• 10 Points for musicality: dynamics, phrasing, interpretation
• 5 Points for overall quality of preparation

Ensemble Excerpts
(Included in this packet)
Prepare 4 short excerpts from Trois Paysages Sélénites by Luc Lévesque. You will be
asked to play two of these excerpt at the audition (not free choice).

• 40 Points (out of 100)

• 10 Points for correct notes and rhythms
• 10 Points for tone quality from right hand and left hand techniques
• 10 Points for musicality: dynamics, phrasing, interpretation
• 10 Points for overall quality of preparation
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 2024 All-Virginia Guitar Ensemble Conductor
Chuck Hulihan, has enjoyed a career
as a guitarist, educator, conductor,
narrator, arts administrator, and as a
classical music radio host. Since
1999 he has directed the
internationally recognized guitar
program at Glendale Community
College, where he conducts the
Glendale Guitar Orchestra and leads
Guitar Ensembles in concerts that
feature world premieres by many of
today’s most prominent and proli c
guitar composers.

Chuck is one of the most active and

sought-after conductors for guitar
ensembles in the US, including
recent performances with Florida,
Virginia, New Mexico, and Nevada
All-State Guitar Ensembles. His work
is highlighted by collaborations with
composers who have written new
works for guitar ensemble including Andrew York, Mark Houghton, Rex Willis, Jan Bartlema,
Adrian Andrei, Frank Wallace, Vito Nicola Paradiso, Taiwo Adegoke, Francisco Munoz, and Aramis
Silvereke.

Conducting highlights include three tours with the Arizona Guitar Orchestra, including Shingo
Fujii’s Concierto de Los Angeles with William Kanengiser, Andrew York’s By Chants with the
GRAMMY-award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Brad Richter’s Once We Moved Like
the Wind with soloists Jose Luis Puerta and Jonathan Crissman.In 2019, Chuck conducted an
exclusive guitar ensemble performance at the Guitar Foundation of America’s International
Convention and Competitions of GRAMMY-award winning composer Carlos Rafael Rivera’s score
to the Net ix mini-series Godless in close collaboration with the composer.

He is the Education Director for the Guitar Foundation of America, where he also directs the
Guitar Orchestras and The Bridge: GFA's Teen Academy at the yearly International Convention and
Competitions. Chuck has been Guitar Chair for the Arizona Music Educators Association where in
2022 they launched the All-Arizona Guitar Ensemble with a virtual project of music by Mark
Houghton. He has served as Western Division Representative for the National Association for
Music Education’s Innovations Council and as a board member for the Grand Canyon Guitar
Society and Phoenix Guitar Society. He has been a frequent guest conductor for all-state
ensembles across the US including Nevada, Florida, New Mexico, and Virginia, and twice served
as conductor for the NAfME All National Honor Guitar Ensemble.
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Sight Reading Examples from Past Auditions
 Solo: Study in Am, Op. 60, No. 7
by Matteo Carcassi (1792 - 1853)
Thousands of student guitarists throughout the world today know the
name Carcassi as the author of an important guitar method and the
composer of many attractive compositions and studies. There is no
doubt he is most well known for these works, but Carcassi was also
one of the great guitarists of the 19th century.

Mattoe Carcassi studied the guitar from an early age in his native Italy.
Before he was 20 he already had a reputation in Italy as a virtuoso of
the guitar. In 1815 he was established in Paris as a teacher of both
guitar and piano. French guitarist Meissonie opened a publishing
house in Paris. The two guitarists became firm friends, and Meissonier
published most of Carcassi’s works.

In 1882 Carcassi established himself in London, after only a few

concerts, as an exceptional guitar soloist and teacher. He soon returned
to Paris, but was able to make an annual trip to London, where his
guitar talents were much in demand.

When he first arrived in Paris, Carcassi’s talents had been somewhat overshadowed by the older Italian
guitar virtuoso guitarist Ferdinando Carulli, but after a few years Carcassi attained very great success. He
gave annual concerts in most of the major cities of Europe, including London., but, despite a brief return
to Italy in 1836, Paris was to become his permanent residence.

- from The Classical Guitar: It’s Evolution, Players and Personalities since 1800 by Maurice J.
Summerfield, (Ashley Mark Publishing, 2002).
 Ensemble Excerpts from
Trois Paysages Sélénites
by Luc Lévesque
Guitar 1 Excerpt
Movement 3
Measures 75 - 106
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Guitar 2 Excerpt
Movement 3
Measures 107 - 131

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Guitar 3 Excerpt
Movement 2
Measures 12 - 29

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Guitar 4 Excerpt
Movement 2
Measures 12 - 28

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